Opening later this month in Los Angeles will be new work by Mark Mothersbaugh, one of the founding members of the band DEVO. “Rugs During Wartime and Peacetime,” are a collection of works that are to be presented by the Scion Installation L.A. Gallery, which investigate how we interact with illustrative imagery in our home and how it can be used for comfort rather than[…..]
New York-based artist Adam Shecter is currently exhibiting new works in a show titled “Fables,” with David Castillo Gallery in Miami. The artist’s work is founded on misinterpretations of his visual and musical experiences and is manifested in both two dimensional and time-based media. Shecter creates work based on his misinterpretations of movies, shows, posters, television, pop songs, and other related media. What results as[…..]
The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) is currently presenting the exhibition “Three,” which features works by three leading artists from the IMMA Collection, Maria Simonds-Gooding, Charles Brady and Callum Innes. This is the beginning of an ongoing exhibition program by the IMMA which will bring three artists from the collection together for solo exhibitions that are placed in close proximity to one another. The[…..]
Performance artist Andrea Fraser has long been acclaimed as provocateur, leading a unique style of performance art coined as “institutional critique.” The artist has conducted many famous performances, such as the 1989 work “Museum Highlights,” where the artist posed as a Museum tour guide under her stage name Jane Castleton at the Philadelphia Museum. During the piece the artist walked different groups around the institution[…..]
On view now at John Connelly Presents is the solo exhibition “Too Much, Too Little, Too Late,” by New York-based artist Scott Hug. For the show, Hug is presenting a new body of paintings, sculpture, video and text-based work that continues his interest in the media, pop culture and politics. The artist appropriates images from media sources like Time Magazine and The New York Post[…..]
New York-based photographer Dan Eckstein works as a documentarian, simultaneously creating editorial and fine art imagery. In a recent project “Picture China,” Eckstein traveled over 10,000km documenting the rapid growth of a contemporary China over an eight week period. The artist visited both metropolitan and rural areas, capturing the people and places of that country and the issues that impact their life. Other photographic series[…..]
Cleveland-based artist Michael Dotson is interested in the appearance of things, especially through the lens of fashion and architecture. Dotson looks at how individuals and spaces become dressed up and made to compensate or fight against an otherwise mundane body or landscape. Created under the principle that fascination comes out of boredom, Dotson has taken structures such as sports arenas as a point of departure[…..]
